Name

firefox — stdin  stdout  - file  -- opt  --help  --version

Synopsis

firefox [options] [URL]

Firefox is one of the most popular web browsers for Linux and most other operating systems. Start it in the background with:

$ firefox &

Some other web browsers for Linux include Google Chrome (http://www.google.com/chrome), Opera (http://www.opera.com), Konqueror for KDE (http://www.konqueror.org), and Epiphany for GNOME (http://projects.gnome.org/epiphany).

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